Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package curl (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CURL-599999
- published19 Aug 2020
- disclosed5 Oct 2017
Introduced: 5 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-1000099 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Debian.
When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers. The code doing this would send the wrong buffer to the user (stdout or the application's provide callback), which could lead to other private data from the heap to get inadvertently displayed. The wrong buffer was an uninitialized memory area allocated on the heap and if it turned out to not contain any zero byte, it would continue and display the data following that buffer in memory.